Originally posted by cjbaldw:

2k, not 6k, equalling out the installed equipment on the car. I understand your point, obviously you don't care about driving a limited edition model car, and you don't care about leather and other such amenities, but other people do. I agree that I'd liked to have seen more HP in the SE-R and an LSD. Heck I hope they bump up the HP numbers next model year and offer the LSD as an option (like they did in the Spec-V Sentra).



2k? 6k? Somewhere in between. You're comparing an optioned out 3.5 SE to an SE-R with no options and dealer discount.

OK, so it's a 6k difference before I go out and buy the right parts. After that, it depends on what kind of deals I can find, etc. So, you're right, it's less than 6k, but I think 2k is pushing it. I also hadn't figured brakes.

You want exclusivity? Most people don't know what SE-R or SVT mean. They see "family sedan" regardless.

G35 ROTM? Yeah, I see them more and more every day. Just like there's 6 or 7 Altimas in the parking lot right now. Who cares if one of them is red with big wheels and some kind of "R" badge? What's that mean? (being facetious, here, but I hope you see my point.) I get the same flak about my Contour, because everyone thinks of the 4 beater GLs with skinny tires and steelies that they saw on the way to work this morning. There's nothing "limited edition" about the SVT-C or the SE-R to anyone but the enthusiast.

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obviously you don't care about driving a limited edition model car, and you don't care about leather and other such amenities, but other people do.



I repeat, the G35 6MT comes with leather, and I wouldn't mind that. I'd rather, though, that it were available with cloth to bring the price and weight down further. (They add the leather to equalize pricing between the MT and automatic base models.) As for external appearances, most people wouldn't know that I was driving a "special" G35 sedan, as there is no badging. Wheels are different, and the car sits a bit lower. Only the enthusiast would know, and that is the way I like it.




Function before fashion. '96 Contour SE "Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998